Cornerstone Church of England Primary School: Year 4 Curriculum Overview

Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2

ENGLISH How to train a dragon

Recounts

Macbeth

Persuasive texts

Explanation texts and newspaper reports linked to Natural

Disasters

Alice in Wonderland:

Narrative writing

Beetle boy

Non-chronological

reports: Beetles

Tadeo Jones: Narrative Artefact

information writing Instructions:

mummification

MATHS Number & Place Value Addition & Subtraction

Multiplication & Division Fractions

Measurement Properties of Shapes Position & Direction

Statistics

Number & Place Value Addition & Subtraction

Multiplication & Division Fractions

Measurement Properties of Shapes Position & Direction

Statistics

Number & Place Value Addition & Subtraction

Multiplication & Division Fractions

Measurement Properties of Shapes Position & Direction

Statistics

RE Baisakhi Concept: identity

Key Question: What is it

like to follow God?

Core Concept: People of

God (2A.2)

Key Question: What do

Christians learn from the

Creation story?

Core Concept: Creation/Fall

(2A.1)

Key events at Easter

Concept: Suffering

Key Question: When Jesus

left, what was the impact

of Pentecost?

Core Concept: Kingdom of

God (2A.6)

Places of worship Gudwara

Concept: Sacred

SCIENCE States of Matter

Teeth and Food

Living Things, habitats animals

and humans, (pets)

Electricity

HISTORY Anglo Saxons Vikings Tomb Raiders: Were the Ancient Egyptians really all that

awful?

Learning Quest: hooks / outcomes

Winchester visit

A walk in Winchester.

Museum for parents

Footage of natural disasters, newspapers.

Feedback to Year 1.

Wonderland Disney Alice and other versions.

Big Read of Alice

Awful Egyptians

Show at Mayflower

Artefact box

Egyptian day

Using digital illustration.

Drama

GEOGRAPHY Winchester vs. Whiteley Extreme Earth

ART Clay (pots) Colour blending and shading

(observation)

Colour and texture (paint)

Illustration (digital)

E book

Charcoal drawing (tone) King T Mixed media

Pharaohs

COMPUTING E safety, e mail Data Purple mash

Scratch Maths quiz

DT

Levers and linkages: mechanisms

Graphic design, (Power point linked to

Extreme Earth)

Tomb Raider Torches - circuits

MUSIC Charanga: Lean on me

Charanga: Blackbird

Charanga – Livin’ on a prayer

PE Football Netball

Hockey Gym

Gym Dance

Basketball Circuit training

Athletics Swimming

Athletics Swimming

MFL

Family Weather Food Human Body

PSHE Team Building Stranger Danger Healthy eating Inclusiveness

Friendship and bullying

SRE